There were children there – they were terrified. The staff were absolutely terrified. It was an angry mob throwing paint at the windows. They had torches and pigs’ heads. We’re being targeted as the poster boys of gentrification and that’s not our fault.

The café has been embroiled in controversy since it opened last year, with some questioning the ethics of the brothers’ prices given that their business is so close to one of the poorest areas of London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ii4QQOqM4

And protesters were keen to make their point about that apparent rich/poor divide very clear indeed.

Footage of the attack filmed from inside the shop shows a large group of masked protesters shouting and defacing the shop-front with graffiti.

The group also appeared to attack a nearby estate agents and burn effigies of “hipster police”. And, yes, a few were wearing David Cameron masks and pig masks.

Soon this City will be an unrecognisable, bland, yuppie infested wasteland with no room for normal (and not so normal) people like us. London is our home and worth defending against this onslaught of dog-eat-dog economics. Working class people are being forced out of our homes but we won’t go out without a fight.